Welcome to Week 6 Term 3 - Online Learning

Bonjour to all Parents and Caregivers,

Firstly we would like to thank all parents and caregivers for the wonderful work they have been doing with homeschooling their children during the level 4 covid-19 lockdown. We hope you have had no problems accessing the learning on the Middle School Kahikatea site. Remember that all the information regarding home learning can be found on the class blog from either this week or last week. If you have any concerns or questions do not hesitate to contact me at sophiebowie@stmarysrotorua.school.nz. We realise that many parents will be working from home and that time to help children with their learning may be limited. The learning posted on the site is intended to be independent work for the children as much as possible. Please encourage your child to do as much work as is feasible given the lockdown realities in your household bubble.

You will be well aware now that we will be moving from Alert Level 4 to 3 and this takes effect from midnight on Tuesday 31st August. The school is presently in the midst of planning for this change of alert levels. The school will be opening in a limited way only. Please see the link below for information about which children are able to attend at alert level 3.

Here is a link to the information Mr Macmillan has sent out by email.

We are asking all parents and caregivers to answer a survey by Monday 9.00am regarding their needs during alert level 3. Surveys for all classes are on the link above.

Congratulations to those students who received an award in this weeks Virtual assembly!.

Here is a link to the Room 15 survey only Here is the link for this weeks learning overview

Home learning will therefore continue for the vast majority of children during Alert Level 3. We will continue to have our daily Google Meet session from 10-10:45am every morning during the week. Room 15's theme for Monday is 'bring a joke'. The children have not yet been told about this, so if you could pass that onto your child, that would be great! On Wednesday morning, we are hoping to do some cooking together. Here is the recipe for brownie in a mug, the only cooking equipment it requires is a microwave and I have tried to keep the ingredients as basic as possible. If you are unable to get your hands on these ingredients, do not worry as we can always do this at school after lockdown.

Have a lovely Sunday, Sophie Bowie